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Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-03-19
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Judge -Pll giveten dollars or three
days. Prisoner -Jedge ,I'll take ten
dollars 5liim 9ai NJ 3Fg 3o3
Sparta Exposition: A diamond drill
has been received for the purpose of
testing for coal at various points of
the Bon Air property. This drill cost
two thousand dollars and it shows all
the minerals through which it passes
and the extent of each.
Men are strange creatures. They
will waste an hour hunting a collar
button instead Of having an extra
supply and letting their wife find the
missing one. You never see wo-
man look for the pin she drops. Her
husband finds it when he walks around
in his bare feet.
Forked Deer Blade One of the
best features about the interstate
commerce bill is that it will prevent
great monopolies like the Standard
Oil company from, with the coopera-
ton of the railroads, squeezing out all
the small concerns in the country.
Old and mutilated bank notes, when
returned to the United States Treasu-
ry, are chopped up and made into a
pulp, which is moulded into various
shapes and forms. The latest design
is miniature bust of Mrs. Cleveland,
which has a ready sale. 1t takes $40,
600 worth of bank notes to make one
of these designs.
Brooklyn Eagle. "Why," asked
the teacher, "did Payne write There
is no place like home?;" Because"
replied the smart bad boy, ait was the
truth. He had no home, aud, of
course, there was no place like place
that wasn't anywhere" And the
teacher started to mark him zero, but
stopped and started to thinking and
thinking, and finally told him that
was correct, and marked him perfect.
German professors are proverbially
absent-minded, but none Of them
more 80 than Professor Dusel, of
Bonn. He noticed one day his wife
placing large bouquet on his desk.
"What does that mean?'' "Why,
this is the anniversary of your mar
riage," replied Mrs. Dusel. 4" Ach,
is that so? Well, let me know when
yours comes around, and'I'll recipro-
cate"
An anxious New York tailor who
sent bill after bill to the home and
office of one of his backward custom
ers finally hit upon the device of
leaving his dun at the Manhattan
Club, where he heard the debtor was
a member. TheGub's clerk returned
the bill marked "Mr. Blank is dead"
On Nov. in came the bill again.
The clerk with grim humor, return
ed it once again writing on its face,
"This man is still dead"
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-03-19
NO. H..

that.the president, in view of the fact
that questions of great public interest,
such as revenue, taxation and fortifi-
cations, must receive attention at the
next session, will call a session to be-
gin in the fall, and that will run
along into the regular session which
begins in December.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-03-19
Lost.

The file of papers in the cause Of
"The National Bank of McMinnville
against j. d. Walling, r. Mead ct.
ais" l will pay $500 reward for there
turn of said file to my Office.
J. c. BILEs, G. x NJ.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-03-19
The CHAT.
Local, Personal, and General Matters
Of Interest to Town and
County People.


MIR. l.. P. Sain, of Viola, was in
town today.
Clover, Timothy and Herds grass
seed for sale by ]. B. Ritchey.
Warmer Colville has gone on a
weeks pleasure trip to Louisville and
Cincinnati.
Mr.. G. T. Thurman went to
Nashville Wednesday morning.
-Landreth's and Siblye's fresh
garden seeds for sale byJ. B. Ritchey.
If you want the best Seed Irish
potatoes to be found, go to j. b.
Ritchey's.
A large lot of sash and doors at w.
S. Lively & Co.'S.
Mrs. Jos. Livingston is in Louis
vile buying her spring stock.
Capt. w. A. Rutherford made a
trip to Nashville and returned this
week.
Miss Laura Murray returned
home Wednesday from Memphis, af-
ter an absence of two months.
Go toJ. Fl Cummins' and see the
young alligator
DIR. Presgrove had his right hand
badly injured in one of the machines
at the barrel factory Thursday.
-27O0 yards linen lace just received
at O. M. Thurman g. Sons.
Mr.. w. T. Murray attended a
meeting of the Caney Fork Coal and
Iron Companyat Tullahoma, Wednes-
day.
There is nothing like it. What
Star soap, of course, sold by d. l..
Brown.
Weed Maddux wants the man
who borrowed his well grabs to bring
them home, or he willsend the sheriff
after him.
Emmett Ludwig had one of his
fingers cut off at the first joint in one
of the machines at the barrel factory
Thursday.
Two car loads of poultry and one
car load of sheep passed down the
road from Sparta Wednesday.
Remember that Smart 4 Co.,
always keep the best cigars on the
market.
Mrs. W. w. Fairbanks went tC
Nashville Wednesday morning, tC
spend the remainder of the Legisla
tive session with her husband.
We have just opened an attract
i've line of stationry, tablets, paper
envelops, etc, in great variety.
SMARTT & Co.
Base ball goods, croquet sets
hammocks, etc, in great variety a
Smart & Co.'S.
Mr.. j. w. Snodgrass came home
last Saturday and spent couple o
Gays getting acquainted with hi
new boy.
Mr.. u. 0. Jenkins has been con
fined to his room with sickness for ;
week, but we are glad to hear that h
is now improving.
Mr.. ]. S. Burroughs left Tues
day for a trip in the interest of tn
Spoke and Handle Works, and will
be absent two or three weeks.
Mrs. J. F. Morford and Mrs. J
f. Bentley went to Nashville las
Monday afternoon, to visit relative
and friends in the city for few days
Mr.. Jas. NJ. Motif is now rollins
pillsand measuring out garden seed a
DR.. Ritcheys drug store. His person
al popularity will soon tell in the in
creased trade of the house.
DIR. G. T. Stainback will preac
in the Presbyterian church tomoi
row morning at II o'clock, and fror
his own pulpit tomorrow night. =
Miss Maria Conner has gone
Louisville and Cincinnati, to pul
chase large stock of spring and sum
mer millinery for Mrs. w. C. Won
ack & Co.
There was quite a sprinkle {
snow on the ground here this CTR
day. morning, with an eighth of a
inch of ice in exposed vessels of VS.
ter. 1t may not injure the lruit, br
five had a large peach orchard
I1,n,,. 4 II. Il,
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-03-19

This is fine weather for garden
ing-under glass.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1887-10-28
4 Cold hnnp.

A cold wave came down from the
north late Saturday night and frozc
everything up solid. Sunday morning
people could hardly believe their eyes
ween they looked out and found the
ground covered with snow. 1t gradaally
grew colder all day until Sunday night
the mercury got down to near zero. Ice
formed to the depth of II inches. The
artesian lake froze completely over as did
all the ponds in the country. The myr-
lads of ducks sat on the icc-bound ponds
all day Monday wondering if in some
way they hadn't missed connections and
lost their reckoning. No such cold spell
was ever seen in this section but once
before-that of 1880. AT present writing
the weather is everything to be desired,
and we will! probably get our usual fine
fall weather again for the next six weeks
or two months.
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s,eatn Of Rev.:yx. b. Ameck.


News was received last week, from Mr..
Beers, a s%on-in-law of Rev. w. b..
Af'eck, in New York City. saying that
that reverend gentleman. so well known
here, had died suddenly at Leeds, Eng
land, on the 18th inst. No particulars
were received, the only news being a
cablcgram received by Mr.. Beers saying:
''Atfleck died suddenly"
Rev. Afieck was for a long time pas
tor Of the NJ. 4. church in KilnbaIl-
leaving here something over a year ago.
He was a man well ani favorably known
over q large section Of the United States,
having travelled extensively as a lect-
urer. He was a man Of brilliant attain
ments and was possessed of an unusually
bright intellect, which served him in
good stead in the pulpit and on the lee
ture platform. A short time after lcav,
ing Kimball. while in New York City,
he induced a wealthy lady of that city to
present the N. +. church of Kimball
with a fine bell, for which act alone he
will always be kindly remembered by
our citizens. He was absent in England
for the benefit of the university at Mitch,
ell and was expected to return to thia
county mex. month. When last heard
from he was in good health.
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An Essay ON Temperance

Written for the Good Templar's Lodge of
Lloyd, Wisconsin, by s. v. Carpenter. Published
in the GRAPHIC by rcqucst.l
We often hear the old adagc quoted,
that we should be temperate in all things.
With the understanding that We may,
therefore use, temporarily, ardent spirits
us a beverage. Now we wish to demur
4 little from that general sentiment.
For we do not believe that " II has q
right to be temperate in sin, in anywisc.
Old Mother Eve was quite temperate in
that line. She just committed one little
sin, if there is any sach thing as a little
sin. She did not cheat, lie nor swear,
but she listened to the serpent and al
him to make her think that il
s%Uuld be better for her to know evil than
not to know it. Like the girl that would
go to the ball, when her parents object
ed, and gave as a reason for their OBJ
lection, that they had been there and
seen the folly of it," she wanted to go
and see the folly OF it too. SO with the
tiplcr. He want to take q little and see
the folly Of it. Like old Mother Eve,
they want their Eyes opened so they can
know evil as well as good. And the first
thing she saw, was that which made her
ashamed of herself. And so il is with
the drunkard. He is ashamed of him
self, and ought to be. And drunkards
are all made OF temperate drinkers.
Therefore, if it be wrong to drink and
get drunk, it is also wrong to drink a
little, and ''.ll unrighcousness is SIM"
and just as big a sin as the one Eve com
mitted, which cursed the world and
caused the fall of man. The woman saw
that the tree WAS good for food. and that
it was pleasant to the eyes. and n tree to
be desired to make one wise. But the
tiplar cannot see any Of those qualities
in alcohol. 1t is not good for food. 1t
intiames the eyes, and presents to his
distorted vision demons. h%obgob!ins and
snakes. in their most horrid forms. 1t
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has no tendency to make n wise. On
the contrary it makes those that use it,
for drink, fools, and takes away their
means of food, and leaves them destitute
with nothing to cover their shame but
rags, not equal to Gig leaves" The
Lord said to Aaron: "Do not drink wine
nor strong drink when ye go into the
tabernacle of the congregation, lest we
die; II shall be a statute fnsever through
Il your generations" Qev. x 81 Samp-
son was Il child of promise, and his
mother was commanded by the Angel of
the Lord not to drink wine nor strong
drink. The command of God in each
case, and many others. Is not to use wine
OF strong drink moderately or Generate
ly, but not at all. So to drink one
dram is just as big a sin as it was for Eve
to eat one apple. We only violate the
command of God in either case. and we
are not to suppose that Eve ate enough
of the forbidden fruit to cause a stupor
to dethronc her reason and send her
miserable carcass to wallowlng in a mud
hole made more filthy by the contents of
her stomach. While contemplating such
scenes, we lose sight of the sin that
cursed the world, and behold one that
damns the soul And yet we are told
that this class of animals are noble, gen
erous chaps. Free hearted gentlemen.
God forbid that society shall recognize
the m an that spends his money for whis
ky to drink, as being entitled to any
honor or respect. The man that is free
TO spend his money to sen a husband or
father home intoxicated, TO abuse his
wife and children. is not a gentleman in
any sense. Our public speakers on lem
perance have no moral right to &C.
knowledge that class as being the best
element of society. They have no right
whatever, to charge that class with pen
ury, who do not spend their money for
whiskey. They have no right to initiate
the drunkard for the sport of the young.
| have seen those inconsistent things
pushed to the front from boyhood to old
age, and now solemnly protest against
them. s. V. Carpenter.
Jan. 20, 1887, Loyd. Wis.
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Oniy Ten ofTheru.

To each and every II of the next ten
yearly subscribers TO the GRAPHIC who
pay BIZ 0 ip advance we will resent a
copy of that we'll known and excellent
farm journal, the Dakota Farmer for one
year. The prise of the Farmer is 81
alone, and it is a dull man indeed that
annot get ten times that amour of in
formation out Of it ina year. This is
the best offer the GRApAlc has ever made.
1t is good but for a short time and to the
extent of ten subscriptions only.
N. BIZ you don't want ar agricul-
tural paper come in and let us know
what you do want and we will fix you
out in some way.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1887-10-28

What n truly beautiful. world we live in! Ma
ture gives IFS grandeur Of mountains, glens AID
occans, md thousands of means of enjoyment.
We car desire no better when in perfect health;
but how often do the majority Of people feel like
giving it up disheartened, discouraged and worn
out with disease, when there is no occasion for
this feeling, as every sufferer can easily obtain
satisfactory proof, that Green's August Flower,
will make them free from disease, Ms when born.
Dyspepsia and Liver Complaint are the direct
causes of sevent, five per cent of such maladies
MS BilliousresR, indigestion, Sick Heudache,
Costiveness, Nervous Prostitution. Dizziness of
the Head. EeklpiitaetiaR Of the Heart, and other
distreee 9 doses Of August
Fiowee&&. &6derful effects. Ssin.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1887-10-28
A~.tonisRing suc..css

1t is the duty Of every person who has used
Boscheo's German Syrup to let is wonderful
qualities be known to their friends in curing
Consumption, severe Coughs Group. Asthma,
Pneumonia, and in fact all throat md lung dis
eases. No person can use it without immediate
relief. Three doses will relieve any case. and
we consider it the duty Of all Druggists to rec
onnend 1T e. .ae poor. dying cunsnmptive, at
leas. TO ary one bottle. rs so,aO. dozen bottles
we're sold liant year, and no ono case whore it
failed was reported. Such a medicine ne the
German Syrup cannot he too widely known.
Ask your druggist about il. Sample bottles to
try, sold at 10 cents. Regular size, rs cents.
Sold by all Druggists and L eulecs in the United
States and Canada.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1887-10-28
Tia Dakota Potato.

The Dakota potato is travelling east
ward in large train loads to supply the
tables of those who live in the region de-
wasted by drouth. The Dakota potato
meets with many EXPLANATIONS of sur,
prise as it journeys along toward the
land of famine and people flock to the
trains and solicit samples to hang in the
public places. 1t is the size of the Da-
kota potato which creates this cnthusi-
asm. In its Dimensions it is no except
ion to the products of previous years,
but it has seldom before been intro
duced into eastern society.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1887-10-28
No Cnuse for Alarm

Fears have been entertained by many
that the carp fry recently placed in the
a~rtesian lake would become q prey to the
large number Of wild ducks which fire.
quent the lake. and it has been suggested.
therefore, that the ordinance prohi biting
the shooting of ducks be repealed, that
protection may be given to the fish. All
such fears are groupdless. The varieties
Of ducks which subsist wholly or in part
upon fish, snails and shell-fish, such as the
shelldrake and fish duck, are not common
to this section. The ducks most com.
monty found in the waters of Dakota
are the blue and green winged teal, NAL
lards, shovcler OF spoonful and widgeon.
or these the green winged teal feeds al
most entirely upon the seeds of grasses
which float upon the owe flowed prai-
ries and the blue winged teal, upon the
seeds Of wild oats or rice, grass, moss
and insects. The mallards and widgeon
subsist upon much the same food with a
liberal allowance of cultivated grains for
desert when they can obtain it. The
delicate flavor Of these birds as a table
dish precludes any possibility of their
partaking of fish as food even were there
no other and better founded reasons for
knowing it.
The principal damage to the carp lies
in the extreme liability Of their escaping
from the pond at its lower outlet. Be-
fore the fry were placed in the lake it
should haye been suitably prepared for
their reception. Possibly the carp may
remain in the lake and thrive nicely, but
il 20 it will be due simply to good luck
and not to any particular care or fore
thought looking to their successful prop
agation.
Apropos Of this, however, SO far az
the ordinance against shooting at the
lake is concerned, we think that it should
be 80 amended or modified as to permit
shooting at the lake anytime bet cen
October list and January LIST. AS long
as the ducks are protected all through
the spring. summer and early autumn it
is enough. While freedom of shooting
is accorded upon every pond. lake and
river in Dakota and in every state in the
Union between the dates mentioned, it is
Il very silly conclusion to infer that pro-
tecting wild ducks upon the very insig-
n%iflcant spot of water called the ''artes-
ism Lake. a effect to any pcrceptible
extent the propagation of our game or
effect the usual number which will breed
in the lake every season. After Kimball
has raised the ducks she might as well
eat them as to have them 60 away to
furnish sport and food for someone
ot.o
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1887-10-28

Mr.. Ed F. Bourne. the efficient and
worthy cashier of the United States Ex-
press CO., Des Moines. Ia, says: From
the lack of exercise and from close con
flnement to Office work, l have been
troubled with habitual constipation. l
haue received more benefit from St. Pat
rick's Pills than anything l ever tried.
! give them a through lest and am now
iu perfect health. l hereby recommend
them as a pleasant and reliable medicine "
They do not grippe nor cause the sickness
occasioned by the operation Of almost
all other cathartic pills or medicines.
Sold by +. Il. Miller.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1887-10-28
For rwenty.aye Cents,

A very important election takes place
IN Dakota this fsll-that on division and
local option. The GRAPH1c will. during
this time, aim to keep it's readers thor
oughly posted on these issues-both be-
fore and after the election-by publish
ing in concise, ineligible and impair
tial manner all the news of interest to
the public. In order to enable those
who are not already subscribers of the
GRAPHIC to obtain an interesting news
paper during the next few months we
will send the paper from now until Jan.
list for 25 cents.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1887-10-28
Worth Knowing.

Here is law point that may save
some poor debtor from being skinned.
Dakota laws exempt the homestead and
81, 500 worth of personal property, but
the debtor must claim the exemptions in
side of three days after the execution is
ing a list of all his property. Failing to
do this, the creditor can take the last
COW or pig from the premises and sell
the same. This was the kink that beat
Maj. Evans out of his pool table. His
attorney was Sam Ramsey while Mr..
Maker employed a gentleman who
knows the legal ropes-Mr. j. 7. Kean.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1887-10-28

$3.50 IN CASH! Worcester's and 3
Wcbster's Dictionaries, worth $50. and
a Dictionary Holders. worth $3.50
gwen as PRISES for best essays an
swering he question "Why should l use
a Dictionary Holdery" For full partic
ulars, send to La Verne w. Noyes, 90 &
101 W. Monroe ST., Chicago. the maker
of Dictionary Holders. Or inquire at
your bookstore.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1887-10-28
Grand Fair and Festival.

The Catholics of Kimball and vicinity
will give n of their superb entertain
ments for the benefit of their church
edifce. commencing on Tuesday even
ing November 90 and continuing for
four consecutive nights. The usual at.
fractions on such occasions and many
new ones can be participated in. fhe
church is now an ornament and withou,
doubt a benefit to this town. Any do,
nations will be thankfully and gratefully
received by the society and may be lief,
at kinsella Bros. store.
D. o,lo. IS Ca-,..:..
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1887-10-28
Gabe liz n Tough One.

G. Z. Schwindt, who a couple OF years
ago, was engaged in the loan business at
Grand View, was arrested at Mitchellla s
Thursday for drawing a revolver on the
marshal. He will he remembered by a
number of farmers hereahouts as the fell
10 who loaned them money and then
bled them for every cent be could get
out of them.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1887-10-28

A clerk counted out a basket of eggs
took gu two at a time and one remained;
took out three at a time and one re
NAMED; four at a time and Que re
NAMED; five at a time and one remained;
SIX at a time and one remained; but when
he took out seven at a time none remain
ed. How many eggs were in the basket?
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1887-10-28
The Index Man Assaulted

Some time last week G rubber stamp
fiend by the name of Graham struck the
town and began his hellish work can
wasting for his wares. The Indes not
iced his arrival in three lines as follows:
A supercellious, hebetudinous crank,
selling rubber stamps, has been doing the
town the past week.
This made the stamp man mad-ight-
ing mad. He didn't know what hebetu-
dinous meant, and the more he looked
through the cyclopedias and dictionaries
and couldn't find any such word the hot
ter he got in the collar. To him it was
terrible, blasting, %ruinous. He couldn't
sleep nights. AS he would fall into a
restless slumber little deviilsh imps
would dance polkas ON his feverish form
and sit with hooking grins on the foot
board chipping: ~Hebetudenous. Hebctu-
nous! Hebctudenous! 1t followed him
by day and haunted him by night till he
was nigh distracted. Tuesday morning
found him looking for gore-not every
day gore, but deep. dark red, bloody
gore, Meeting Mr.. Thorndyke in the
postofice he wanted to eat him, but con-
cludcd not to-ju,t then. He hen went
to the station t. take the train east and
again ran across the Mder man, who had
made life q burden and existence a curse.
As the train pulled into the station he UNI
expcctcd)y walked up to Mr.. Thorndyke
and struck him several blows in the
face aud then made a break for the train.
Sheriff Ochsncr. who happened to be
uear, grabbed the fellow, and after near
ly choking the wind out of him, walked
him up town where Justice Sedgwick
fined him So. The city council shortly
after held q special meetiag-present,
Bocktinger, Richards and Kinsella-and
RENTED the fine, for the reason, they
state, that the Jnder item was an uncalled
for slur upon an inotfensive stranger.
MIR. Thorndyke then had the stamp man
pulled for assault. Constable Franklin
took him before Judge Long, who gave
him twenty minutes on his own rccog,
n~izance to find a lawyer. He is still
looking for the lawyer. He skipped. II
was afterward learned that he procured
q livery rig and was driven to White
Lake, where he was seen plying his ne
farious traffic (ncfarious traffic is good
the next day,
In all seriousness, the assault upon the
editor of our contemporary was entirely
uncalled for. The item, possibly, was
not rs carefully woIded as it should hav,
been nor in good taste. but it was in nj
degree libelous or such MS to rip a man.
coat up his back. The assault, was, n
the best, made in a cowardly manner
ard we regret that Mr.. Thorndyke didn'
have a club handy and break the fellow
head.